Past Events

Evaluating the Intersection Between Birth Defects and Childhood Cancer: An Integrated Epidemiologic and Genomic Approach - Dr. Philip Lupo

Recent Updates in the Genomics of Burkitt Lymphoma and Other Cancers - Dr. Reiner Siebert

SEER Today and Tomorrow? - Dr. Lynne Penberthy

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The Mexican Teachers' Cohort - Challenges and Future Directions - Dr. Martin Lajous

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Getting Ahead of Cancer: Prediction and Prevention - Sir John Burn, M.D.

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Visiting Scholar Sir John Burn, M.D., Professor of Clinical Genetics, Institute of Medicine, Newcastle University, U.K., delivers the Visiting Scholar Seminar titled "Getting Ahead of Cancer: Prediction and Prevention".

Lung Screening Economics: From Resource Utilization to Research Utilization - Dr. Sonya Cressman

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Lung cancer screening has the potential to save more lives than most other cancer control interventions

Finnish Maternity Cohort: Serum Biobank and National Registries - Dr. Helja Marie Surcel

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The Finnish Maternity Cohort (FMC) is a biobank comprising virtually the entire population of women in Finland who have been pregnant between 1983 -2016. The FMC is linkable with population-based health registers including the Finnish Cancer Registry and the Medical Birth Register. Serial prediagnostic serum samples and comprehensive data accessible over three generations provide possibilities for unique study settings. The FMC has made substantial contributions to the scientific literature in terms of our understanding of the associations of various biomarkers with the later health of the mother and child. Studies include epidemiological research of infections associated with certain cancers (cervix, breast, leukemia) and linkage of prenatal exposures/biomarkers (smoking, alcohol, Vitamin D, persistent organic pollutants, steroid hormones, thyroid hormones and antibodies) with development of multiple sclerosis, with mental disorder of the child, or with pregnancy outcomes in general. Dr. Surcel’s presentation will focus on the principles and guidelines for how FMC biospecimens combined with health register data and archived pathologic samples are made available to researchers.

Additive, Joint, or Synergistic Health Impact of Sleep and Physical Activity? Using Novel Methods to Understand How Distinct Behaviors Impact Health - Dr. Matt Buman

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Using Novel Methods to Understand How Distinct Behaviors Impact Health

Personalized Treatment Plans with Multivariate Outcome Measures - Dr. Somnath Datta

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In this talk, the speaker proposes a novel method for individualized treatment selection when the treatment response is multivariate. This method covers multiple (any number) of treatments and it can be applied for a broad set of models. The key idea to handle multivariate response is to employ a rank aggregation technique to estimate an ordering of treatments based on ranked lists of treatment performance measures such as smooth conditional means and conditional probability of a response for one treatment dominating others. An empirical study demonstrates the performance of the proposed method in finite samples. Finally, the procedure will be illustrated using a real-life dataset on a HIV clinical trial.

NIH Human Research Protections Program Approval – Implications for DCEG Studies - Dr. Sharon Savage

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As of January 1, 2019, there is no longer a requirement for investigators to submit a request for determination by the NIH Office of Human Subjects Research (OHSR) when they are conducting research activities with only de-identified data or biospecimens and have no access to identifiers or the code key. Dr. Savage will present the implications of this new policy for both new and currently ssIRB/OHSRP approved DCEG studies. All are highly encouraged to attend to learn about the new DCEG internal processes.